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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Walking down childhood memory...

A nostalgic trip back home. I spent some time packing to throw away old work notes and books, and came across my photo album:) I dun have many photos when I was a kid..it was fun looking back!

This's not my granny. I never had any pictures with my granny. This granny is my neighbor in our old estate and apparently, the whole family dotes on me when I was a little girl. My brothers and mum used to complain how I would always duck out of the house and go over to their place to play, and have my meals there.... as they are cantonese family, which is why my mum lamented I am destined to marry someone of Cantonese descent...It's a pity I cannot rem any of them since we moved house after I was 5yrs....

The daughter of granny. Incidentally, mum said I love apples on my clothes when I was young. She said I use to pester her to make clothes with apples badges to be sewn on it. Mum chuckled and said I was picky too! I didnt accept all apples! I reject apples with cartoon worms. It has to be a perfect apple, or a bitten apple without worms! Ironically, I had to avoid eating apple for a while because concentrated apple juice was too sweet for me and I was allergic to it...
 
This shot was taken after I won some "cute kid" contest that my neighbor secretly took me to participate in. Mum said she was totally unaware until my neighbors came rushing up to our flat, asking mum to collect the prize since it has to be the parent. Mum said she never knew what I was "up to" since a lil girl...lol
ne of my best friend after I moved to my new place. I dun rem her but I rem the slide playground I use to sneak out to every day....Mum said I went "crazy" one day and took the scissors and cut my own hair off. She didnt know to be mad at me, or to be sad for my hair...
I only rem taking this shot after we came back from Botonical Garden. And the next day after this shot, my cousin got a slap from her mum because she was indignant that the hawker center drink stall owner had given me an extra lychee in my drink and she was screaming bloody murder at the injustice! Luckily america wasnt so big into non physical upbringing then or my aunt would have been in serious trouble for slapping her in public...


 Spending time with my fav Malaysian cousin! We use to share everything, play together, until my aunt passed away when we were 10yr and they couldnt come over to sg anymore... We are still close since they are the closest silbings I could get near my age. Of course the fact that they are in Malaysia means we hardly get to meet up but at least when we do, time and distance doesnt put a dent to the relationship:)

It's very strange how I can forget many things and yet rem things like this blue stool chair and the pink doll.

Wrapping up Singapore trip

Been to Singapore and back.

Somewhere along the way, I had somehow chipped my lower tooth even even realising it! It was until I got back and was flossing that I noticed the chip! Crap! Because its always "hidden" behind my buck teeth, so its not obvious...still its a sign of worry. The last I checked, the dentist said they were in good condition. I didnt bite on any hard stuff....so I couldnt understand how it happened!

Anyway, My bro drove me to Sim Lim and got myself a cisco router to finally fix up my wireless at home. Finally my iphone is no longer rendered useless at home! haaa haaa

Went to amazon and bought a Kindle DX for my partner since he had been eyeing on it for some time now. The advantage is that we no longer had to wait for paper back to be brought into HK and it will be cheaper than books to buy the titles!

It was a good week spent in Singapore. Met up with some college friends on Thurs nite at one of the girl's place. Didnt realise how close she lived near me. And my god, the guys really stuff me silly with all the local food! They went out to buy loads and loads of food from satay, fried O-Jian, fried rice, fried squid, grilled chicken wingg, BBQ sting ray etc....Just when I manage to polish most of it off, the guys from 2nd round joining us brought even more food! I nearly died from thinking of food alone!!!! The only thing they forgot was my sugar cane juice....sigh...but i had warm coke to stand in...In between food, we were completely wrapped up with the Xbox F1 game they had installed at home, complete with the seat and car-like gear accessories! Needless to say, its a good thing I wasnt a competitive driver....


We hung around close to 12am. Some had to head back to work, some went to bed, and another ended up chatting with me till 5.30am in the morn. Typical of Singapore, it would be impossible to be hanging out at void decks without being attacked by mosquitoes....


These are friends for 18yrs now and as we sat there reminiscing about the past, we laughed about the petty fights, the stupid jokes, and all the nitty gritties we did back in those days. The present isnt pretty for some, work, personal whatever. Some had to go through ugly divorces, painful child custody, some had to rough it out at their jobs but some had it good too. Life is truly unpredictable.






In between the busy schedule, manage to sneak some time out to meet E and her hubby. They took a cab down to the cafe near my place and we hung out for hours and we all got bitten really badly in the alfresco spot. In total, I had 8 nasty bites in 3 hours and they swell up like crazy and even their cig smoke couldnt drive the attacking bastards away. My gf and I commented that its strange how we never ran out of things to say no matter how frequent we meet or how many hours we spend talking and talking...I guess when u have been friends that long, you have alot of materials to work on from past to present....

My gf asked me if we might be the only people where she calls her best friend as her hubby's other honey?  I started to laugh everytime we think about this... and I told her its only possble because we completely trust each other, plus beings friends first before they got hitched defintely helped. Its amazing that the 3 of us simply doesnt have any secrets between the 3 of us, and i meant from personal to family matters. Its not always you get to have someone who listens supportively and doesnt use what you shared as gossip material with others.

As one gets older, one cannot help but be quite thankful really, how we have gone through several rough patch to reach where we are, but all the misunderstandings seem to secure our friendship further. It doesnt happen with every friend I have, some drift apart, some are too consumed with their own lifes to care about others, but I'm glad at least there are still some I know I can solidly count on at any time, and not at their convenience or whether it was a good day.

My bro loaned me his iPad and my god, I was so addicted to the Zombie and Plants game that I stayed up most nites till morning just to break all the levels! The problem with me, is that I cannot let go once I had my sight and heart set on something....so the fact that I was so determined to complete all levels, I rather forgo sleep to acheive that. It's crazy i know being that it's just a game but still...I just wanted to know what challenges each new level offered.

The other thing I busied myself with was playing with my other brother's doggie -Gabby but I call him my baby! It's such a cute little thing and he recognise a sweet kind angel when he sees one. He is such a munja litle fellow, sticking close to me and "ignoring" my brother a some point until he raised his voice. He is a good boy really, only yelping for my attention when he sees I am awake. Mum said he would patiently sit and wait outside my bedroom door once he was released...waiting for me to play with him, spawl on the ground for me to massage him and feed him treats every time he completes several commands. My bro jokingly said Gabby is such a traitor! He doesnt bark at strangers and all he wants is food and play:) Heee heeee. He is one lucky fellow because my mum will give him a rub down with a wet clothes every morn and wipe his arse when he poo.... Gabby is prob luckier than some kids born to human parents....

Waiting patienly outside the kitchen as he watches my mum cook...he loves the smell of food even though he doesnt get any of our food! Still he waits.....

 yup, little fellow loves cuddling himself up up on my legs, waiting for me to stroke him back and cuddle him.

Gabby lurves sniffing my legs..its almost like he is trying to etch my scent into memory..pls dun forget me!
Time for bed but he still wants to play! Lucky fellow even have his dedicated fan to blow at him thru the nite!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

If facebook exists then...LOL

This page is freaking hilarious! You guys should check it out. It's a fake page taking a piss at some historical events and making something funny out of it based on the concept of "if facebook exist then".

http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/if-historical-events-had-facebook-statuses/
http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/if-historical-events-had-facebook-statuses-part-2/

Norway in a Nutshell: Hardanger Fjiord 6


The majestic view of Sognefjord during the hour boat ride


 I lost count of the waterfalls.



while waitin for the Flam train, we visited the museum and while looking at the miniatures, suddenly something strange caught my eye. I bend down to have a closer look, and hola! A man in the tree?!! I was so amused that I had to take a shot. Then it got me excited, Could there be more? So I started to scout ard and I wasnt disappointed. The person doing this landscape miniature must be superbly bored or trying o be funny. He succeeded at the latter! haaaa

Did u spot the guy peeing? haaaaa haa i really had a good laugh.! The rest of the tourist just gave it a glance and left, thinking i must be mad to be laughing to myself

this was really cheeky! haaaa
 An overall view

Waiting to Board the Flam train to Mydral the highest point






An oncoming Falm train




a trickling waterfall which will be gushing at full throttle and vol during peak season



i thought the grass growing on the roof was so cute!





Off to Hardanger Fjord. We were soooo lucky. When we woke up, it was pissing down rain. I was filled with dread since I hate to bring a brolly. but miraculously just before i stepped out, the rain stopped. We made our way to the bus terminal, a 15mins walk away. Just as we board the bus, it pissed down rain again! During the hour bus ride, it was raining alot and I was alittle put down... bad weather to sight see. However just as we stop to change to express boat, the rain STop again!!! I quickly snap snap snap of the surrounding in the  5 mins, and just as i was done, the rain started again! Talk abt erratic!!! And lucky!!!


 the rain clouds set in 30sec after i took the shots above.
I was sharing the lovely view of the beautiful fjords and clouds and rainbow with another traveler Louise from Yorkshire, UK. We were als o the only 2 idiots hanging out at the top deck braving the cold and misty rain continue to shower us...still we were happy to be there and have each other for company.







Because of the rain, when the sun broke thru the clouds, i was literally surrounded by rainbows. TONNES of RAINBOWS! I have nerv ever seen so many rainbows left right center and a full long arch in my whole entire life before. So u can imagine my excitment! My camera couldnt have the wide angle to capture it all...it was a truly magnificent sight to behold! You cannot image what rainbow does to one;s mood. the sort of uplifting your spirits magic!